Facebook recently passed up Google for page view traffic in the US and it’s just a matter of time before it does this for visitor traffic too. A recent Hitwise report shows how social networks have already passed search engines in the UK, in terms of visitor traffic.
Social networks more popular than search engines in [...]
Online social deal-finding and shopping site, Groupon, raised $135 million over the weekend from Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian Internet holding company that has investments in other notable startups including Facebook and Zynga. Groupon had previously raised $30 million in December, lead by Accel Partners.
Groupon’s visitor traffic has skyrocketed over the past 9 months, much [...]
In its short life (less than a year), Foursquare has attracted a lot of attention as one of a few new location-based social networks that allows you to share your whereabouts via a “check-in” system.
Apparently it is now starting to attract a lot of traffic. Foursquare recently tweeted that they averaged a check-in per second [...]